Hey all!
Yes, I'm fine. No worries. I actually am very grateful that, due to my illness, I got so far ahead on my goal, because for the last four days or so I have been spending pretty much all my spare time watching the entire series (thirty 45-minute episodes) of Twin Peaks. It's truly amazing. At some point (probably next year) I will rewatch the entire series just to start picking up on the things I missed. I have also come to the realization that watching these entire series of television shows is really hard to do concurrently with this blog! Perhaps I should rethink my no-TV-series addendum from a few entries ago. Oh well.
Today's entry is the third previously-viewed entry on the countdown (I'll have another one for you tomorrow, as well), but the reason behind it is simple: the RiffTrax audio file came out today (see http://www.rifftrax.com) so my brother and I giddily synced it up to the DVD and prepared to enjoy. For those of you who aren't familiar with RiffTrax, it is from several of the people who did MST3K, and they poke fun at more current movies. They are pretty hysterical.
The movie itself is my second-favorite HP film (behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1), but even in the pantheon of filmdom, it falls into the "good, not great" category. Certainly it's enjoyable (Emma Watson does a passable job at acting, for a change), but the real standout of the film is Harry being hot. I mean, Imelda Staunton as Dolores Umbridge. She personifies the character we all hated to hate, in all of her evil-ness. Between her little hem hems, her penchant for pink, and her sad-face intonation when disciplining Harry, she totally nails it.
Despite the good performances in the film, RiffTrax still had plenty of fodder. As it usually does, there is one motif that rears itself throughout the film and this movie's was "Wands are a euphemism for penis". And since wands are kind of an important part of the film, there was a lot of fodder. Some of the funniest parts I can't do any justice here because the lines themselves aren't as funny as the way they're delivered, but my favorite standard line from the movie is this response from Harry after asked why he's kind of dejected:
"Ladies' Home Journal rejected my flan recipe."
Beautiful.
Movie Score: 8.0
Score w/RiffTrax: 9.0
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